tptmrk
February 1st, 2011, 05:45 AM
I just updated to 10.04 (forgot about the many hours I spent on this problem due to the last upgrade).
On boot I get these errors:
(EE) VESA: Kernael modestting driver in use, refusing to load
(EE) No devices detected.
I think the problem is (this started with 9.10)
lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)
I followed at least a dozen blogs and threads last time and tried lots of stuff eventually disabling Compiz (checked and it's still off according to preferences menu), did something with a grub booting setting to change quiet splash to nomodeset, and finally it worked without the screen freezing when I did post #3 here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1307413&highlight=82845G%2FGL
I forgot all about this when upgrading and it asked me about xconf.org and I didn't what it did so I told it to upgrade. I've changed it back like the post above, but it still freezes up randomly. I can't figure out how to do the nomodeset thing because the grub file doesn't seem to be in the same place as the post I saved from last time (#50 here)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1347430&highlight=9.10+freeze&page=5
I've been poking around for hours and rebooting and messing around, but I'm just really lost. I had also saved this link and the last post seems to say the problem may go away by upgrading to 10.10 - worth a try?
http://janvandevoort.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/ubuntu-9-10-with-vga-intel-82845gglbrookdale-gge/
If so, it doesn't show up as an option on Update Manager but other websites say it's a "stable release" so how would I upgrade.
Any help here? Thanks!!!
On boot I get these errors:
(EE) VESA: Kernael modestting driver in use, refusing to load
(EE) No devices detected.
I think the problem is (this started with 9.10)
lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)
I followed at least a dozen blogs and threads last time and tried lots of stuff eventually disabling Compiz (checked and it's still off according to preferences menu), did something with a grub booting setting to change quiet splash to nomodeset, and finally it worked without the screen freezing when I did post #3 here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1307413&highlight=82845G%2FGL
I forgot all about this when upgrading and it asked me about xconf.org and I didn't what it did so I told it to upgrade. I've changed it back like the post above, but it still freezes up randomly. I can't figure out how to do the nomodeset thing because the grub file doesn't seem to be in the same place as the post I saved from last time (#50 here)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1347430&highlight=9.10+freeze&page=5
I've been poking around for hours and rebooting and messing around, but I'm just really lost. I had also saved this link and the last post seems to say the problem may go away by upgrading to 10.10 - worth a try?
http://janvandevoort.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/ubuntu-9-10-with-vga-intel-82845gglbrookdale-gge/
If so, it doesn't show up as an option on Update Manager but other websites say it's a "stable release" so how would I upgrade.
Any help here? Thanks!!!